Teen sentenced for heroin distribution

SUPERIOR COURT ó A Wantage teen was sentenced to three years probation for distributing seven bags of heroin in Hamburg and then fleeing when police tried to arrest him, the prosecutorís office said.

Nicholas J. Milazzo, 19, was sentenced by Judge Thomas J. Critchley in state Superior Court in Newton on March 28. He was ordered to have an 8 p.m. curfew, six month loss of driverís license, a substance abuse evaluation and treatment, and $1,303 in fines.

He pleaded guilty on Jan. 13 to the third-degree crime of distribution of a controlled dangerous substance and to the fourth-degree crime of resisting arrest.

He admitted to distributing heroin on Nov. 19, 2013, in Hamburg and to trying to flee from members of the Sheriffís Department in order to avoid arrest that same day in Wantage, according to the prosecutorís office. The Sussex County Gangs, Guns and Narcotics Task Force investigated.

Milazzo was represented by attorney Kevin McLaughlin and the state was represented by Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Reed.